Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1887-06-30
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.


wrestling with the measles.
There is talk of redistricling the city Of
Muskegon and making seven wards.
"A young man at Grass Lake ate twen-
ty-three bananas at one sitting the other
day.
A company is being organized at
Luther to put down test well for oil or
gas,
The business men Of Bay City want q
belt line for freight transfers from one
railroad to another.
The Dog Fanciers' Guide is lively
little paper published at Luther. 1t has q
circulation that reaches every State in the
Union.
A business mems association has been
organized at Luther which is giving prom
ise of doing some good work toward secur-
ing manufactures.
Hiram Zalinski, aged 20, unmarried,
was almost instantly killed by log rolling
on him in McNaughton's camp, near Byers,
Mecosta County.
Rev. j. Homer Parker, former Con-
gregational pastor at Bay City, has been
heard from at Kansas City, Mo-, where he
starts religious newspaper.
The House bill making it unlawful for
insurance companies to combine by means
of local boards and underwriters was
agreed to by the Senate committee of the
whole.
The finest shipyard on Lake Superior,
they say. has been established at Baraga.
Baraga is RAnse's suburb, in a way, and
LAnse wants the new establishment as
part Of its own boom.
1T is found that the flooding of log
drives kills -hillinna of fsh- The fish spawn
in the shallow water of the small lakes, and
after the floods are drawn off acres Of
spawn are left upon dry ground.
Philip Sparkling, the dwarf who was SO
severely injured in runaway accident at
Grand Rapids few days ago, died of his
injuries. The remains were taken to his
home in Grand Traverse County for burial.
The cowboys of the Grayling Cattle
Company found the remains of q body on
the Manistee plains, about nine miles from
Grayling. An inquest will be held, as it is
suspected the person was foully dealt with.
w. ]. Miller, Of Alpena, is under ar
rest. Miller was manager of the Union
Lumber Company's Bay Shore mill last
season, and it is charged that he sold about
$50, 000 feet of stuff without making an ac-
counting.
The Bay City, Pinconning and Glad
win Railroad will be completed by Sept. 1.
There is q force OF 325 men now working
upon the line. The Tittabawassee bridge is
finished and the clearing along the entire
line is nearly all done.
-Supt. Thomas, of the East Saginaw
public schools. announced, at q meeting Of
the Committee on the Appointment Of
Teachers, that he had sent letter declin-
ing the Superintendency Of the State pub
lie school al Coldwater, having resolved TO
remain in East Saginaw.
-Pequaming, Baraga County, is genu-
inc prohibition town. Mr.. Hebard, the
owner of all the property in the village,
refusing to permit the sale of any intoxi-
cants. The village has a population OF
about 700, and the people ore happy, pros
porous and continually sober.
-Coldwater is to have still another pa
per in addition 10 the three already estab-
lished and the Sunday paper. About the
1st of July A. Bartholomew will commence
the publication of the Eagle. II will be a
column folio, independent in politics,
but in the interest of the Knights Of Labor;
il will be issued on Saturdays.
An old cottage house, the former
residence of E. d. Moss, of Maple Rapids,
burned 10 the ground. The building was
unoccupied, and the fire must have been
the work Of incendiaries, as no fire bad
been in or about the house for weeks. The
house stood in the south part of Maple
Rapids, and was among the first buildings
built in the village.
Tho new opera house at Shepherd was
opened to the public q few nights since,
and the boomers of that new town were
surprised at the notices that adorned the
place. In the center Of the stage are the
words, "In God We trust" The pro-
scenium revealed the words, @All the world
is q stnge of action on which we should
prepare for the eternal world" Over The
entrance the visitor reads, "Jesus saith
am the door-by me il any man enter he
shall be saved"
The lumber manufacturing interests Of
Cheboygan have taken on decided i'm
pulse in the way of a Healthy growth, judg-
ing from the indications so fur shown this
present season, and all the possibilities
point to the seasons cut far exceeding that
Of former years. Several new mills havo
started up and some have dropped out of
existence. The number at present in net
i've operation shows gain Of two mills of
large capacity over the count of last sea-
son, with still another which will be taken
TO Cheboygan and set up. 1t is hardly
possibly TO correctly estimate the actual cut
that the present season will foot up, but
there are several good reasons for assuming
that IL will be far in excess Of last season.
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-Anson Luce, an engineer, was killed
on Deming's logging railroad near Kala-
mazoo last week, and his employers have
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